29 March 2012 London My tribute to the great American poet and feminist Adrienne Rich, who died this week. Amid…
Carry On, Siegfried
5 November 2011 London Hearts were inspired and buttocks were numbed through a marathon screening of Siegfried, Part 3 of…
Slayed by Saved
30 October 2011 London Saved, otherwise known as “the play where the baby gets stoned”, has had its first revival…
Queer Eye for the Rugby Guy
23 October 2011 London Rugby, the game that personifies New Zealand’s macho homophobic culture, is now a thing of homoerotic fantasy –…
Shame and First Love
16 October 2011 London One day, two great London Film Festival films: Steve McQueen’s brilliant, punishing Shame, and Andrew Haigh’s…
It’s The End of the World As We Know It
22 September 2011 London Farewell R.E.M., perhaps the definitive indie pop band of the 1990s. My generation had something akin…
Bathos and Bicycles
19 August 2011 St Ives, Cornwall In which I yawn my way through One Day by David Nicholls, this summer’s It-Novel.…
The Rise and Fall of the Metrosexual
11 August 2011 London In the first of three reviews of gay-themed books out this summer, I look at Metrosexy, a…
Rory’s Boys
11 August 2011 London Making an auspicious literary debut this month is my friend Alan Clark, whose novel Rory’s Boys is a…
Excavating the Closet
11 August 2011 London I sympathised with my friend Alan Clark having his debut novel Rory’s Boys launched in the same…
From the Choirboy Motel 